Entries Tagged as 'Alumni'

Percussion professor Theresa Dimond has shared the following: “Here is a link to a picture of me playing at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago (in June) with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. I was one of three featured percussionists (two from LA, one from NY) who performed Tan Dun?s Water Passion. I performed the LA […]

John Steinmetz, faculty bassoonist, was in Phoenix in June to produce a recording of three of his compositions. The Mill Avenue Chamber Players recorded John’s Quintet for winds and his woodwind quartet Fits and Starts. (That quartet was commissioned by UCLA’s Gary Gray for a performance by the UCLA faculty woodwinds.) The Pacific Arts Woodwind […]

Professor Lysy has sent us an email with some news about his summer activities. This year, as usual, he is participating in the Incontri in Terra di Siena chamber music festival at beautiful La Foce in Tuscany. Please CLICK HERE for the event’s website and some beautiful photographs of the area. Pictured below is a […]

We happened to run across this great Ted Talk on YouTube from a few years ago with UCLA Organist and organ professor Christoph Bull talking about “Opening Up To The Organ.” He is giving the lecture from UCLA’s Royce Hall Organ. CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEO. Enjoy! Christoph Bull at the organ

Composer John Williams paid a visit to Music 290 (Composition Forum) taught by Professor Gloria Cheng, on Thursday, June 2nd. He had been scheduled for a visit the day before, but because of the tragic events on campus that day was willing to return the following day. As Professor Cheng notes: “He shared some of […]

Mrs. Carol Block has shared the following photos and information from the last two recitals of the year. All students are from the Department of Music. On May 24th, listeners were treated to a piano recital by Andrew Munro, who brought to the Residence an ambitious piano performance of Bach, Beethoven and Liszt. Anderew Munro […]

Vanessa Vasquez, MM ?14, has just won the First Prize in the prestigious Zachary Society Vocal Competition held this past weekend in Los Angeles. The week before that, she was the Top Prize winner in the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Vocal Competition in New York. We are proud of Vanessa and her accomplishments! At UCLA, […]

We have received a concert update from Prof. Inna Faliks regarding her recent residence at UNC Greensboro, where she played a very demanding set of concerts with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. She says: “I just got back from a very intense performance week in Greensboro, North Carolina, where I played Rachmaninoff 2nd concerto twice, and […]

The 2016 Metropolitan Summer Recital Series will once again bring free outdoor recitals featuring rising young stars of the opera world to New Yorkers in all five boroughs. The series, now in its eighth year, is presented in collaboration with City Parks Foundation?s SummerStage Festival and will feature six free concerts between June 22 and […]

Professor Lysy’s well known summer festival near Siena, Italy, will be featuring the following program of events. You may want to participate in the program or just come to the concerts! For more information, check the event’s website at: www.itslafoce.org